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Music and technology in the twentieth century
- Conferences
- Symposium ICOHTEC (23rd : 1996 : Budapest, Hungary)
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- Creator
- edited by Hans-Joachim Braun
- Included Title
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- I sing the body electric
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Johns Hopkins edition
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
- Physical Details
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- 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801868856, 0801868858
- OCLC
- ocm47297673
- Papers from 'Technology and music', part of the 23rd Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) in Budapest, Aug. 1996.
- Originally published: [Hofheim] : Wolke, c2000, under title: 'I sing the body electric' : music and technology in the 20th century.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Hans-Joachim Braun -- Keyboards, Crankshafts and Communication: The Musical Mindset of Western Technology / Geoffrey Hindley -- Electronic Instruments: Classifications and Mechanisms / Hugh Davies -- 'It all Began with a Broken Organ': The Role of Yamaha in Japan's Music Development / Tatsuya Kobayashi -- The Social Construction of the Early Electronic Music Synthesizer / Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco -- My Soul is in the Machine - Conlon Nancarrow - Composer for Player Piano - Precursor of Computer Music / Jurgen Hocker -- Music and the City / Barbara Barthelmes -- "Movin' On": Trains and Planes as a theme in Music / Hans-Joachim Braun -- A Servile Imitation: Disputes about Machines in Music, 1910-1930 / Karin Bijsterveld -- From Polka to Punk: Growth of an Independent Recording Studio, 1934-1977 / Susan Schmidt Horning -- The Origins of the 45-RPM Record at RCA Victor, 1939-1948 / Alexander B. Magoun -- Tape Recording and Music Making / Andre Millard -- Musicians and the Sound Revolution: Business, Labor, and Technology in America, 1890-1950 / James P. Kraft -- Aesthetics out of Exigency: Violin Vibrato and the Phonograph / Mark Katz -- The Social Reconstruction of a Reverse Salient in Electrical Guitar Technology: Noise, the Solid Body, and Jimi Hendrix / Rebecca McSwain -- Soundsampling: An Aesthetic Challenge / Helga de la Motte-Haber -- New Technology - New Artistic Genres: Changes in the Concept and Aesthetics of Music / Martha Brech -- Musical Education and the New Media: The Current Situation and Perspectives for the Future / Bernd Enders